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London Workers Held Hostage in Bomb Threat

Matt Cantor — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:46:56 CDT

A man has been arrested in an apparent hostage situation in central London that prompted an evacuation and the closing of a major thoroughfare. Police were called to Tottenham Court Road after office equipment was hurled from the fifth floor of an office building, the BBC reports. A man carrying...

Pentagon Condemns 'Repugnant' Afghan Photos

Rob Quinn — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:00:00 CDT

American officials were quick to condemn the grisly photos of US soldiers posing with the body parts of dead Afghan suicide bombers that surfaced yesterday . White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the soldiers' behavior "reprehensible," while the US Ambassador to Afghanistan called them "morally repugnant," and defense chiefs promised...

Bomb Kills 15 at Pakistan Funeral

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:29:04 CDT

A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by an anti-Taliban politician in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 15 mourners and wounding 30 others, police said. The politician, Khush Dil Khan, escaped unhurt in the blast on the outskirts of Peshawar. Islamist militants are fighting a vicious war against Pakistani...

Feds Watched Would-Be DC Bomber for a Year

Mark Russell — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:42:26 CST

The FBI is keeping quiet about the 29-year-old Moroccan-born man who tried to bomb Washington on Friday, but details about Amine El Khalifi and his plan are beginning to seep out, reports the AP . The FBI believes El Khalifi was acting alone and was not affiliated with al-Qaeda. He came...

Insurgents Storm Iraqi Cop Compound

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:55:00 CST

Iraqi insurgents stormed a police station in Ramadi yesterday, triggering a firefight that killed at least seven people. The attack followed several car bombings throughout the city. The compound houses an anti-terrorism unit and a prison, reports the BBC. Attackers moved in after two suicide bombers who had infiltrated the...

Funeral Bomber Kills Afghan Lawmaker, 9 Others

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:04:59 CST

A suicide bomber blew himself up today during a funeral in northern Afghanistan, killing 10 people, including a member of the national parliament, a government spokesman said. The attack occurred as mourners were leaving the funeral in the town of Talaqan, said a spokesman for the governor's office in Takhar...

Militants: Somalia Suicide Bomber Was an American

Mark Russell — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:01:07 CDT

Somali militant group al-Shabab says a 22-year-old suicide bomber who killed "scores" of African Union soldiers in an attack in Mogadishu on the weekend was an American who grew up in Minneapolis, reports the New York Times . The AU has confirmed that two suicide bombers attacked their base but the...

Ex-Afghan President Rabbani Assassinated

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:41:20 CDT

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated today, dealing a harsh blow to peace efforts after a decade of war. Officials say a suicide bomber concealing explosives in his turban entered Rabbani's house in Kabul and blew himself up; four of Rabbani's bodyguards also died and a key presidential adviser...

Afghan Bombing Injures 77 Americans

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:30:27 CDT

Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and two Afghan civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said today, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The attack was carried out...